Park Theatre's New Year's Eve party is being proclaimed with bright, brand-new marquee lights, thanks to the Holland Board of Public Works.

Doors will open at 8 p.m. today for a 9 p.m. music show headlined by Tessa Perez and the Hats, with performances by a host of other bands, including Organic Dub, Rheinstone and the Family Jewels, Sergeant Selkirk and the Simon Says, Gavin’s Voice and Mind Sikers, Biker-Miker and the Two-Wheeled Terrors, as well as Martini Mike and the Whos’ Christmas.

GLOBE Design & Vision owner Bob Schulze, president of the Park Theatre Foundation board, said the new lights were installed after he met with Holland BPW's Josh Smith, who explained a new energy efficiency program for commercial spaces. In late November, Schulze brought Smith to see the theater's marquee, where more than half the bulbs had burnt out.

Smith suggested replacing all the bulbs with 6-watt LEDs.

"Within a week, he and a crew were back to install 428 new bulbs at no charge," Schulze wrote in an email to The Sentinel. "For a nonprofit on a tight budget, they were God-sent."

Foundation members have so far managed to replace the theater doors and roof as well as increase insulation. Those changes reduced utility bills from $800 per month to about $600, Schulze said. The new lights, he said, should shave another $120 from the bill.

The lights are only on for 20-25 hours a week, he said, and will brighten up the New Year's Eve celebration. The party will feature bands that cross generations, he said.

"These are groups that include the younger, college-age kids and their parents, who have been getting together every year for five or six years to play during the holidays," he said.

All proceeds from tonight's show benefit the Park Theatre Foundation and future building improvements, he said.

Park Theatre is at 248 S. River Ave. in Holland. Doors open at 8 p.m. for the New Year's Eve party; admission is $5. Learn more at hollandparktheater.com.